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Notes from Asia Library

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photo of Asian Publication Culture Information Center, Paju City, South Korea
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  • Dawn Lawson
A Librarian Goes to Book City
Approximately an hour away from Seoul, surprisingly close to the border with North Korea, there is a magical place where books are said to outnumber people at a ratio of 20:1.
Program poster for the Book Index conference
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  • Liangyu Fu
An Intellectually Curious Trip to the UK
A Chinese Studies Librarian travels to the UK to talk about books, the indexing of.
The home page of the Japanese text mining web site
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  • Dawn Lawson
Digital Humanities: The Miner-Michigan Connection
Last week a groundbreaking workshop on the topic of Japanese Text Mining was held at Emory University. U-M Japanese studies folks were a strong presence there.
Cover of Murakami's Kishidancho-gorōshi
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  • Dawn Lawson
What to Read Next
Looking for vacation reading? The popular Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki has published a new book.
Photo of exhibit curators Emily Wilcox and Liangyu Fu
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  • Dawn Lawson
Everybody's Talking about Our Chinese Dance Collection
Chinese Dance: National Movements in a Revolutionary Age, 1945-1965, our exhibit on the history of Chinese dance, is receiving lots of media coverage.
Picture of Hongwei Xu's lecture
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  • Dawn Lawson
Deep Dive
Last year, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS) and the Asia Library began co-sponsorship of a new series of guest lectures and workshops under the title Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods in Chinese Studies.
poster for chinese dance exhibit
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  • Dawn Lawson
Dance, Dance, Dance
The Asia Library and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies are co-sponsoring a physical exhibit, a curator talk, a conference, and an online exhibit about the history of dance in China.